Vocal learning is the ability to modify acoustic and syntactic sounds, acquire new sounds via imitation, and produce vocalizations. "Vocalizations" in...

the DLM (thalamus), and from DLM to LMAN, which then links the vocal learning and vocal production pathways through connections back to the RA. Some investigators...

hummingbirds: comparison to swifts, vocal learning (Songbirds) and nonlearning (Suboscines) passerines, and vocal learning (Budgerigars) and nonlearning (Dove...

separation, and consequently, varying habitat conditions and learning based upon experience (vocal learning). Chimpanzees have been observed to modify the structure...

migratory routes. An important area of study for animal culture is vocal learning, the ability to make new sounds through imitation. Most species cannot...

vocalizations and have become a dominant model species in the study of vocal learning. There is evidence that some aspects of this are culturally transmitted...

B. (1993). "Spontaneous vocal mimicry and production by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Evidence for vocal learning". Journal of Comparative...

passerines), and parrots share a capacity for vocal learning. Thus it is possible that vocal learning, and the corresponding variety of song, was present...

studied in the wild or in captivity by researchers using hydrophones. Vocal learning strongly influences the development of signature whistles, which can...

Nancy; Coopersmith, Carol; Foster, Valerie (2005). "Effects of Male Vocal Learning on Female Behavior in the Budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus". Ethology...

is the head of a team of researchers who study the neurobiology of vocal learning, a critical behavioral substrate for spoken language. By studying animals...

tone quality, vibrato, coloratura Vocal health and voice disorders related to singing Vocal styles, such as learning to sing opera, belt, or art song Phonetics...

mice and songbirds indicate that it is necessary for vocal imitation and the related motor learning. Outside the brain, FOXP2 has also been implicated in...

is a series of discrete brain nuclei involved in song production and vocal learning in songbirds. It was first observed by Fernando Nottebohm in 1976 in...

perception and movement rely on complex vocal learning which require motor and auditory circuits in the brain. Vocal learning and beat perception do some overlapping...

species, the Egyptian fruit bat, is capable of a kind of vocal learning called vocal production learning, defined as "the ability to modify vocalizations in...

caudalis (HVc), and high vocal center) is a nucleus in the brain of the songbirds (order passeriformes) necessary for both the learning and the production of...

and identifying colors. Parrots, hummingbirds and songbirds display vocal learning patterns.[citation needed] Crows have been studied for their ability...

and vertically; and acquiring vocal techniques such as legato, staccato, control of dynamics, rapid figurations, learning to sing wide intervals comfortably...

numbering 3–12 clicks, in stereotyped patterns. They are the result of vocal learning within a stable social group. Some codas express clan identity, and...

the vocal cords, also known as vocal folds, are folds of throat tissues that are key in creating sounds through vocalization. The length of the vocal cords...

of onomatopoeias Sound mimesis in various cultures Sound symbolism Vocal learning Warblish "Definition of ECHOISM". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved...

and for juvenile males to choose an appropriate song tutor during vocal learning. Researchers studying the swamp sparrow (Melospiza georgiana) have demonstrated...

vocalization. Vocal communication serves many purposes, including mating rituals, warning calls, conveying location of food sources, and social learning. In a...

group cohesion. Calls differ between roosting groups and may arise from vocal learning. In a study on captive Egyptian fruit bats, 70% of the directed calls...

(September 1993). "Spontaneous Vocal Mimicry and Production by Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Evidence for Vocal Learning". J Comp Psychol. 107 (3):...

region), an area in the avian brain involved in song production and vocal learning HVC, the product code used by Nintendo for Famicom hardware and software...

investigates vocal communications in mammals. Vernes was the first to make use of bats as a tractable mammalian model of vocal learning. She is particularly...

communication Human speechome project Kinship with All Life – book Vocal learning "Can any animals talk and use language like humans?". BBC. 16 February...

able to form before the period where learning to sing occurs. Social interaction is important in vocal learning where non-singing females can even influence...